Eugenia Williamson, PBS Self-Destructs. Harper’s, October 2014. (Subscription only, but non-subscribers can read one article per month as guests.) “Last October, I watched as a passel of activists convened in front of WGBH, Boston’s public-television station. There were about three dozen of them on the concrete forecourt…. WGBH employees, as well as cameramen and reporters on hand to cover the protest, weaved through the crowd. The grassroots climate-change group Forecast the Facts had organized the rally as an attempt to expel David Koch from the station’s board of trustees. The members had collected and printed out 120,000 digital signatures and placed them in boxes, which they planned to present at that afternoon’s board meeting. ”
October 1, 2014
PBS Self-Destructs
October 1, 2014 Filed Under: Education, Journalism/Media, Politics, Poverty Tagged With: americans for prosperity (conservative advocacy group), amos hostetter, big bird, bill moyers, carl deal, carnegie commission on educational television, charlie rose, citizen koch (documentary film), cpb (corporation for public broadcasting), david koch, forecast the facts, itvs (independent television service), jane mayer, jim lehrer, net (national educational television), pbs (public broadcasting system), public broadcast laboratory (1967-69), public broadcasting act, sesame street, tia lessin, wgbh (boston's public-television station), wnet (new york public-television station), working families (progressive advocacy group)